U.S. M-1 Abrams vs Russian T-90
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Red Bull drinking, phone texting and video game playing Yankee boys have no chance against our T-90 and newer tanks manned by little old ladies who live outside Moscow. We were not scared of Napoleon, Tiger Tanks or fuel hungry M1A2. Our Babushkas will blow them away and be home in time to kill chickens for dinner! We just turn off gas pipe and Western Europe freezes! Put Putin in ring with Obama and see who wins! Hillary would have better odds I think.
hball55
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Russian T90 turned to burnt toast.
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I liked when it said the tank remain harmless. I assume they meant unharmed, but it was kind of funny.
Typical fancy video by somebody who really doesn't know that much about armor. But at least the Russians finally ditched the carousel of death, in their older auto-loading system. Yes it's more modern, but the T-90's are really just the latest evolutionary result of the chain which went through the T-62, T-72, T-80 designs. Armata looks to be a very different game. We'll see what actually transpires in that design, and if it actually goes into large scale production. A lot of armor systems have come and gone without seeing more than a few showpiece prototypes, which all looked fancy and promising at the time.
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MaxQ
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The first Gulf War proved what a death trap the T-72 was...and the deadly ammo carousel the crew was stationed above - as you stated. Lots of T-72 brewed up as the Brits said.
The ammo in an M-1 was all in behind blast door at the rear of the turret.
The auto loader also required the barrel to go off target momentarily IIRC...giving a another advantage to the M-1 in a shootout.
Also terrible to hear about all the gunners who had their arms loaded into the breech too.
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grouch
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Is it just me or does the Rusky tank look cooler?
